One of the most beautiful songs ever written, hits even harder knowing that Blood on the Tracks was recorded when Bob was in the midst of a painful divorce.

Beyond the beauty of the heartfelt lyrics and the lush acoustic instrumentation, Dylan turns in one of his most impassioned vocal performances. The notion that Dylan can’t sing is ludicrous especially if you believe as I do that singing is the art of communicating the story within the song. Dylan is a master vocalist and always has been.

By his own admission never fully believe what Dylan says in interviews. He lets the music speak for itself.

I think we have all felt this way at one time or another....so relateable

His son Jacob said that the songs on Blood on the Tracks "Are my parents talking."

Great reaction again.. Keep Bob coming!!! Dylan is the G.O.A.T..not those sports guys!!

A gem from the divorce album. The twin work is You're a big girl now, also with naked pain. The live version from Hard Rain is emotionally brutal, actually hard to listen to if you've gone through similar scenarios.

Nice reaction . . . beautiful song by Bob.

Makes you want to have a good cry. Great reaction.

Great reaction to Bob's poignant and earnest lyrics from someone whose heart is broken for the love he lost but to whom he still feels for and still wants to hang on to some part of it. Love takes two hearts and as such cannot follow solely by what you may wish for.

When you say "his first album, I think you're referring to his 2nd album - The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan. His first one is just called "Bob Dylan" and has only 2 songs written by him. The 2nd has a load of, as you say, heavy-hitters.

What a great song from Dylan, I do hope you get deeper into this album, Blonde on Blonde is a masterpiece to

Beautiful, painful song by the grand master of story telling. That is one of the best male vocals I've ever heard, incredible singing, so emotional.

You are quickly learning how to LISTEN to Dylan. Approach his music emotionally. Resist the temptation to approach it cognitively. Finding meaning does not always require analysis.

Great reaction to an amazing song...

There is a live performance of this song by Bob Lakeland 1976 - he changed some of the lyrics (some are not very audible and have been transcribed ) it is just heart wrenching, it's on youtube

Simple twist of fate has to be next.

The whole album is open like this. Try “Simple Twist Of Fate” from the same album. “He woke up. The room was bare. He didn’t see her anywhere. He told himself he didn’t care, pushed the window open wide.”

Title reminded me of another favorite tune from Canadian band April Wine "Say Hello", check it out

Perhaps bob’s best song?

Alternate take from the version on the album, but it's just as stunning as the one on BLOOD ON THE TRACKS. One of my absolute favourite songs from The Bob, as I heard it for the first time when I was going through exactly what the lyrics conveyed. Love you reactions to Dylan man.

They say a poet is a naked person. Bob Dylan is a poet that incidentally grew as a singer and a musician.....but he is a poet first of any other thing.

Another "divorce song" you may check is Marvin Gaye's "When Did You Stop Loving Me, When Did I Stop Loving You". The whole album of Dylan's "Blood on the Tracks" arguably exhausts every emotions coming from a failed relationship: heartbreaking, regret, broken promises, loneiness, feeling fooled by the twist of fate, anger, self blaming, trying to find joy in sorrow....But you will find many of these complicated emotions in this single song.

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"Bob Dylan" was his first LP. "Freewheelin'" was his second LP.

This one gets me every time . . .

#ShawnSalvadori -- no matter what he said later in interviews, this song and this album are about personal experience. Dylan changes his explanations all the time in interviews. Trust the song. He tries some narrative and structural experiments in the writing but it's ABOUT him & Sara.

I'd love to see you do Dirge from the album before this one, it's just Bob on piano and Robbie Robertson on guitar and it's probably his most poignant and personal song, I mean just read the first verse: I hate myself for lovin' you and the weakness that it showed You were just a painted face on a trip down Suicide Road The stage was set, the lights went out all around the old hotel I hate myself for lovin' you and I'm glad the curtain fell

I'm not sure whether the tempo quietly speeds up as the song progress. The music at the beginning appears calm and easy, but towards the end it sounds like increasingly hurried and tangled up, conveys the feeling that he can't help but being disturbed as he "replays the past".

On the same album, intense anger,, Idiot Wind and, Blood on the Tracks, A plus, album, Storytelling genius in Rosemary and the Jack of Hearts, could be a movie in the most condensed poetry,

Hi there. We tend to forget that Dylan is a good piano player. He's probably playing organ on this one besides the acoustic guitar and vocals 😅take care

this song hits hard to me due to a bad break up

If you want to hear a song that was written about Bob Dylan, listen to Diamonds and Rust by Joan Baez

One true love - Suze Rotolo

Been Dylan fan for 60 years. Everything he says in interviews needs to be taken with a HUGE grain of salt. Blood on the Tracks, has alot of Dylan’s personal loss, anger, and heartbreak, as he and Sara were breaking up. The song Sara is about as biographical as Dylan ever got.

Girl From the North Country has a similar vibe. Not the version with Johnny Cash. It's not as hurting, but it leans that way.

Please do the live version of Bob's "Abandoned Love", not the 1985 Biograph version

You're a Big Girl Now in another. Blood on the Tracks is a great album

Bob Dylan was his first album.

might not be the greatest album ever written but its sure in the top 2

What a sad song.

most every line is ended on the down

P s.check out Bob's ..Slow train coming album..Bob does some great singing.m

He also admits his guilt in causing the separation.

and Idiot Wind

It's really not a 'man' song it's about a break up. We are really not the same are we. Breaking up is sad.

A finer song has never been written..

Probably his last truly great album. No fillers...

My least favorite song on the album.